Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus and Down Syndrome Patients

We compared prevalence of hospitalization, endotracheal intubation, and death among case-patients with and without Down syndrome during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Mexico. Likelihoods of hospitalization, intubation, and death were 16-fold, 8-fold, and 335-fold greater, respectively, for patients with Do...

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Autores principales: Pérez-Padilla, Rogelio, Fernández, Rosario, García-Sancho, Cecilia, Franco-Marina, Francisco, Aburto, Octavio, López-Gatell, Hugo, Bojórquez, Ietza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20678334
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1608.091931
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Sumario:We compared prevalence of hospitalization, endotracheal intubation, and death among case-patients with and without Down syndrome during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Mexico. Likelihoods of hospitalization, intubation, and death were 16-fold, 8-fold, and 335-fold greater, respectively, for patients with Down syndrome. Vaccination and early antiviral drug treatment are recommended during such epidemics.

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